Anybody else noticed a severe uptick in bizarre targeted advertisements/blatantly spying on our phone conversations?

https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1rg3j89/anybody_else_noticed_a_severe_uptick_in_bizarre/

I know this is a conversation going a while back, and tbh, in the past I wasnt exactly sure where I fell down on it.

There is just a difference on them making weird deductions from our internet searches and spying on you via cookies, etc.. vs just having straight up backdoors into the OS and listening to us talking. The stories also seemed a bit more rare and insulary.

But in the past few months its just gotten super over the top in my own experience. Just about everything serious going on in my life, that I keep having conversations with my friends and family about, I keep getting these targeted ads now.

I have also now been paying closer attention to rule out the cookies, etc.. alternatives. E.g. most recently I am talking to my mom about Vitamin D tablets, and how if you arent outside much you should take that stuff, bam, 2 days later my reddit ads full of Vitamin D advertisements. I am 100% sure I didnt do a single internet search on that stuff and neither did my mom, just some offhand remarks on that one phone call, and that was over regular phone net, not one of the apps.

Anybody else with similar experiences?